9-letter words containing ail
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- king rail — a large, long-billed rail, Rallus elegans, of North America, having reddish-brown plumage.
- land rail — corn crake.
- lash rail — a rail, solidly fixed to the bulwarks of a vessel, to which objects on deck can be lashed.
- lig snail — banded Florida tree snail.
- live rail — an electric rail track
- lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- mail flag — a flag of the International Code of Signals symbolizing the letter Y, flown alone by a ship to indicate that it is carrying mail: a square flag with red and yellow diagonal stripes.
- mail path — source route
- mail room — sorting office for post
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mailcoach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- mainsails — Plural form of mainsail.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- medaillon — a portion of food, especially meat or poultry, cut or served in a round or oval shape.
- mitraille — the shot or small pieces of iron that are fired from a cannon
- mocktails — Plural form of mocktail.
- monorails — Plural form of monorail.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- nail bomb — an explosive device packed with nails or similar metal objects that act as shrapnel.
- nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nail file — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nail-sick — iron-sick.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nailed-on — certain, definite; guaranteed to be successful
- outsailed — Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.
- overhaile — to draw (a covering) over
- paillasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- paillette — a spangle for ornamenting a costume.
- papermail — snail mail
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.